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 lays hands upon his wife is to have his bones uffer for it. The men are a naughty tribe; therefore, ays the proverb, After marriage comes orrow,—but I mut e’en ubmit to it, ince I once have vowed to take it for better and wore.’

‘That is indeed true; but if thou wert ure the men were a naughty tribe beforehand, it was but a foolih bargain to take one for better and for wore.’

‘Perhaps it was; but Stephen was a brik handome wild young man, with a good trade; as for me, I was but a poor imple girl, without a farthing for my portion. So he came to me and gave me a dollar earnet, and the bargain was truck. Afterwards, indeed, he took away the dollar, but I have the wild man left till.’

The pirit miled: ‘But perhaps it is thou that maket him wild by thy perverenes.’

‘Oh! he has long ince driven that de- ‘vil